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8/12/13

Chalkboard Wall and Don't Cry Over Spilt Gasoline

My Latest Project

I have wanted a chalkboard wall for a long time. What better place than in my studio/classroom! It was as easy as painting any wall, and that's never really as easy as you think it's going to be. Just painting this one wall displaced so much STUFF. I had to wait awhile before I could second-coat it, and then I had to wait three days before "conditioning" it (rub it all over with the side of the chalk and then erase it). I haven't finished hanging all the paintings or putting everything back on the shelves (to the right - out of the picture), but I have managed to sort a lot of things.

I'm not finished with my summer classes and workshops, but I seem to be getting a head start on my fall nesting.

I go about my uneventful little life, and then WHAM, something ridiculous happens. I stopped for gas, filled my tank, and THE GAS WOULD NOT SHUT OFF! What do you do with a nozzle pumping out gasoline when you already have a full tank?????? So the girl inside at the counter says, "Would you settle for $25.50?" YES! Just let me the heck out of here! Here's my $25.50. I won't be back.

A PETOSKEY WATERCOLOR JOURNAL

I am an artist living, teaching, and painting in a beautiful, small, resort town on Little Traverse Bay in Northern Michigan.
My creative passion is watercolor sketchbook journaling.
On this blog I will post things that I am working on and things I am teaching in my classes. I Hope you find something to make you smile.